It has to be in the computer, mine has done this too. I put in the jet
stage II chip and for some unknown reason it dosent do it anymore.
The 1-2 cutout is the tranny computer. It does that on purpose so shifting
at wot wont hurt the tranny.
it sucks. I should have gotten the 5 speed too.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clifford" <jcliff42@uswest.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: DML: 4.7L auto tranny
> I also get some bad, stuttering shifts. Mostly on the 2-3 shift,
especially
> when tranny is cold. It only does this under moderate throttle at about
> 2500 rpm. Never had it do this under full throttle or anything close. I
> think this tranny is weird, I can accelerate (slowly) from about 20 to 40
> without the rpms hardly changing at all. I've never noticed this on any
> other automatic, and it seems it would build up a lot of heat by absorbing
> all that power I'm not putting to the ground.
>
> I want a 5 speed!
>
> Jason
> 2000 CC 4x4 4.7 auto
>
> Al & Jeanna Figols wrote:
>
> > I just signed on to this list today and already I have a question for
> > all of you '00 4.7L automatic equipped Dakota owners. How does your
> > transmission shift? I ask because mine seems to have a chatter between
> > shifts sometimes. It seems the harder you accelerate the sloppier it
> > shifts. The other day while pulling a trailer I had to floor it to get
> > out into traffic and between the 1st and 2nd shift it acted like it hit
> > the rev limiter even though it barely hit the red line. The dealer
> > first said that they were waiting for a TSB, but I feel like it is more
> > than that. It's been to the dealership 4 times! I feel it is a computer
> > problem because it doesn't happen all of the time. I'm curious if
> > anyone else has or is experiencing this. I had a 1990 Chevy truck with
> > 240K miles on it that shifted better than my new Dakota does with only
> > 14k miles.
> > Thanks,
> > Al
>
>
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